Re: AP to Darwin on hold "YET AGAIN"

["William Miller" <backtran@optusnet.com.au>]

No, you  must be kidding

I did the calc - it results in $484,000 by my numbers - have I got it right?

I read somewhere that profit is revenue (which you have) less expenses and
capital charges - you do not seem to have these? What is the Capex and
Maintenance on the Hume?

For a comparison with rail you have to look at a narrow view - that is only
the below rail revenue and ignore the below rail costs as you have done -
You can do this in part by looking at the 1999 ARTC report  - $84MAUD/yr
revenue for access (equivalent to the fuel levy). By your analysis this
should be the final result? A little skewed I think?



Maurie Daly <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> You must be kidding.
> The Hume Highway is the most profitable road in this country.
> Some 4400 trucks use the Hume Highway every nite in both directions.
> The average 40 tonne gross semi trailer uses 500 litres of fuel for
> this journey.
> Thats a total of 4.4 million litres of diesel used every nite , of
> which the Federal Govt gets 22 cents per litre excise or a total of
> $880000.00 every night.
>
> And this doesnt even count the cars that use the Hume every day,and
> the excise they pay.
>
>
> Show me a railway line in this country that earns this sort of
> money????
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> MD
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